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Brève traversée (2001)
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Catherine Breillat (writer)
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Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact... more | add synopsis
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How do you say ennui in English? more (16 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Sarah Pratt | ... | Alice |
| Gilles Guillain | ... | Thomas |
| Marc Filipi | ... | Magicien |
| Laëtitia Lopez | ... | Assistante magicien |
| Marc Jablonski | ... | Cuisinier du self |
| Christelle Dacosta | ... | Douanier Français |
| Nicholas Hawtrey | ... | Vieil anglais |
| Franck Lemaitre | ... | Serveur de la boite |
| Philippe Quaisse | ... | Photographe |
| Jean-Claude Cavelier | ... | Serveur de la boite |
| Alexandre Le Balidec | ... | Douanier Français |
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Brief Crossing (International: English title)
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France:80 min | Netherlands:84 min (Rotterdam Film Festival)
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| Real sex in love scene? | rsvpaddress |
| Sarah Pratt ? ? | Norsseman |
| Reminds me of something | phild45 |
| Someone please post the ending | jhill0129 |
| DVD released... | gi-s |
| Shower Scene | phild45 |
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80 minutes, and it felt twice that long! Brief Crossing is not brief enough. Indeed, the first 50 minutes or so consist almost entirely of a dialogue (more of a monologue, really) of a woman approaching middle age, tediously droning about "men," disappointment, sex, aging, and her recent breakup, to a French teenager she met in the ship's cafeteria.
The tedious monologue continues as they go to duty-free shop, and to a bar, where finally her self-involved rant pushes him away. The "story" can't end there, of course, so she persuades him to listen to her drone on more as she brings him to her cabin.
What little romance, sex, or for that matter, anything at all this film has besides bitter rantings is hardly enough to justify the price of a rental unless you are one of those who love dramas where nothing interesting happens at all. Yes, the ending is very nicely done, but it is scant reward to subject yourself to what amounts to a turning your living room into a virtual therapy session with a narcissistic whiner.
Of course, some people like it. I could be wrong.